Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-01
GENERAr.


All CHOW, Chrnamdn, was executed ut
| Lytton, British Columbia, recently for a
| murder. When the time came he smoked
a cigarette and died game.
SERvIA has demanded an explanation OF
the Bulgarian circular refusing Servians
the privileges granted under the capitula-
| ton.
TEN Thousand more dolls = have been
sent by Treasurer O'ReiiIy, of the Irish
| National League of America, to Ireland.
| Ex-EMPREss EUGENE, on the I'D, was
said to be lying critically i'll at Amsterdam,
Holland.
ARCHBISHOP FABRE, of Montreal, has or
dered all Catholics of that city to offer up
special prayers for the restoration OF the
| Pope's temporal power.
| PRESIDENT HARRIS, of the Northern Pa
| citic, has closed negotiations with August
Belmont and Henry Willard, representing
| a syndicate in which the Rothschiids and
| the Deutsche Bank of Berlin are the prin-
cipals, for the sale of IS. COO, 600 of the third
| mortgage bonds authorized at the special
meeting of the stockholders of the North
| ern Pacific road.
THE German steamer Leander, from
| Cadiz for Hamburg, struck the wreck OF
the w. A. Scholten in the English channel
| on the 25d and was towed to Dover in Il
| sinking condition. The wreck of the
Scholten was lying directly in the path of
| traffic and special lightship was sent to
| replace the improvised one
The German Bundesrath has fixed the
budget. The revenue and expenditure bal
ance is 921, 6S9. 600 marks.
THE statement that the balloon in which
III. L'Hoste and another aeronaut made an
ascent on November ID from Paris had
fallen to the earth was incorrect. Nothing
was known OF the fate Of either the men or
the balloon
Brighton, England, recently. By Don
Juan's death the Spanish pretender claims
to be the legitimate King of France.
The National Zeitung. OF Berlin, says: ut
is reported in medical circles that DIR. Vir-
chow found no cancerous particles in the
discharg, from the growth IN the Crown
Princes throat The portion sent to Dr.
Virchow, however, was mutilated in tran
sit.r
JEAN ADAM BRUNNER, a naturallzed
American citizen, who was seized last
month by the German Government on the
ground that he had not done military duty
to that Government, has been released,
and he will be allowed to return to Amer
lea.
THE American ship E. f. Sawyer, Captain
Dinsmore, from San rancisco, June IL, for
Queenstown, was sunk by collision with
the British steamer Palinurus at Folke-
stone, Eng. the other morning. The crew
were saved.
HEAVY rains in Arkansas and Southern
Illinois on the 23d did much to extingulsh
the devastating forest fires.
Two Russian steamers were IN collision
recently in the Black Sea. One of the yes
sells sunk, drowning thirty five persons.
NJ. GREvY on the 23d announced his inten-
ton of resigning the Presidency of France,
the date of which event he had not fixed.
THE baggage of the italian passengers of
the cholera-stricken ship, Alesia, who were
released from quarantine recently, has been
landed at Castle Garden.
A RECENT dispatch from St. Petersburg
says the police surprised an armed band of
Nibilists in that city and arrested them af-
ter desperate resistance.
AT military banquet in Warsaw re-
Gently General Gourko, in proposing a
toast to his officers, said: "Unless the AL
mighty has allotted me very brief span of
life, it will not be long before will again
lead you to the field as did decade ago."
DIR. SCHLIEMANN denies that he has eX-
pressed his intention to bequeath his col
lection of antiquities to Germany. He is
now excavating the temple OF Venus at
Athens.
THE peace arbitration delegates, after
their return to England, spoke highly Of
their reception in America, and expressed
themselves as hopeful of good results from
their visit.
Z. V. PowDERLY. grand master workman,
Knights OF Labor, reiterates his determin-
alton to retire from the Office next year.
TIE German Reichstag was opened on
the oath, Minister Won Boettieher reading
the address from the throne, which was
brief.